And checking “Hardware keyboard present” will allow you to use your Mac keyboard (instead of having to poke at the UI with your mouse). Likewise, you need to check the box next to “Use Host GPU”, or the browser will crash with the same unhelpful message. If you don’t set up an SD Card, then the browser will immediately crash for no apparent reason. In order to get the menu to show up, I had to click to an unrelated window, then back to the Android SDK Manager window.
You could create one from the command line, but let’s use the GUI for now. In order to run the Android simulator, you will need an “Android Virtual Device”. Select the System Image and SDK Platform for the Android version you want to emulate.Īt this point, you should be able to just run the Android emulator, right? No, this is the point at which your hopes and dreams are put on hold while you Google around, trying to figure out how to configure and run the emulator, then debug the same couple undocumented problems that everyone runs into.
You wouldn’t think that a post like this would be necessary, but as I recently went through a frustrating bit of config hell in what I’d expected to be a straightforward process, I thought I’d write down the procedure that worked for me.
